Revisiting medieval Christian-Muslim relations: How a restored medieval depiction of the Crusades shows England embraced Islamic culture
MENACHEM WECKER, of Religion News Service, reports on how floor tiles from Chertsey Abbey in England, the subject of a new exhibition in the US, resemble Muslim and Byzantine silks that crusaders brought back as souvenirs…
Archaeologists reconstruct floor of Second Temple in Jerusalem
The likely design of the geometrically-interesting floor of the Second Temple has been reconstructed by archaeologists in Jerusalem. Using original fragments dating from the time of King Herod about 2,000 years ago, experts have painstakingly reconstructed the floor of the Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD following a Jewish rebellion. Archaeologists […]